Imagination Quotes

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.